AC 4594, 4592 - Joseph & Benjamin

AC 4594 [2]

. . . the spiritual celestial
is intermediate between
the natural or external person
and the rational or internal person,
thus below it
was the natural or external
and above it
was the rational or internal.

 AC 4592
. . . good has power by means of truth.
 
. . . no one can have an idea
of the good which is represented by Joseph,
and of the truth which is represented by Benjamin,
except the person who is enlightened
by the light of heaven.
The angels have a clear idea of them,
because all the ideas of their thought
are from the light of heaven
which is from the Lord,
in which they see and perceive unlimited things
which a person cannot possibly comprehend,
still less utter.

The reason why the Lord alone
was born spiritual celestial,
is that the Divine was in Him.

. . . Benjamin specifically represents
the spiritual of the celestial,
and Joseph the celestial of the spiritual,
and so both together are the intermediate between
the celestial and the spiritual person . . ..

Joseph and Benjamin were most closely conjoined,
not because they were of one mother,
but because by them is represented
the spiritual conjunction which exists
between the good which is "Joseph"
and the truth which is "Benjamin,"
and because both are intermediate
between the celestial and spiritual person.
For this reason
Joseph could not be conjoined with this brethren,
nor with his father,
except by means of Benjamin,
for without an intermediate
no conjunction is possible,
and this was the reason why
Joseph did not reveal himself sooner.